1813 in art

Events

• May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1813 opens at Somerset House in London
• June 21 – Battle of Vitoria: The Marquess of Wellington, as victor, reclaims 83 paintings seized by Joseph Bonaparte from the Spanish Royal Collection which he is allowed to retain.

Awards

• Prix de Rome – James Pradier

Works

• John Constable – Boys Fishing
• Johann Peter Krafft – The Departure of the Militiaman
• Francesco Hayez – Rinaldo and Armida
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley
• Samuel Morse – The Dying Hercules
• James Northcote – Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel
• Johann Christian Reinhart – Blick auf Tivoli
• Thomas Phillips
• * Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb
• * Lord Byron in Albanian Dress
• J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning
• Mattheus Ignatius van Bree – Napoleon's Arrival in Amsterdam
• Willem Bartel van der Kool –
• Richard Westall – Portrait of Lord Byron
• David Wilkie
• *''The Letter of Introduction''

Births

• January 2 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter
• March 4 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter
• March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator
• April 2 – Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter
• April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter
• July 28 – Mathilda Rotkirch, Finnish painter
• September 17 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer
• date unknown
• *George Hollingsworth, American painter
• *Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian
• *Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer
• probable date – O. G. Rejlander, Swedish-born photographer

Deaths

• January 14 – William Marlow, English painter especially of marine scenes
• February 5 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter
• March 22 – Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter
• April 12 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander
• May 31 – Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter
• June 19 – Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter
• June 20 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style
• June 22 – Anton Graff, Swiss portrait painter
• July 29 – Valentine Green, English engraver
• November – Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching
• November 29 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher date unknown
• * Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter
• * Edmund Garvey, Irish painter
• * Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer